As it’s about to be 11 minutes past 11 (local time), am tolling a bell in my mind to remember what happened 100 years ago…

The Armistice was signed in Compiègne, France and came into force at 11 am Paris time on 11 November 1918 (“the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”) and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although never formally a surrender.